enterprising
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The oil curse will lay less heavily on its people, as it already has its neighbors—oil-rich governments once typically didn’t need to care whether their subjects were enterprising, productive and educated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
But Ireland struggled to contain a hard-carrying, enterprising Australian effort, and Canham crashed over after a stunning Rob Valetini carry caused havoc in the Irish ranks.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“Are our moneyed men less enlightened to their own interest, or less enterprising in the pursuit?,” the future Treasury secretary wrote External link in 1780.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
It is symbolic of your enterprising younger self, and all of those fancy cars and five-star vacations that you passed up on, perhaps using that money as a down payment on your next property instead.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
Some enterprising filarial worms, having worked their way up into his eyeballs, started making him blind, and he grew very gaunt and miserable.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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